A cultural history of the Disney fairy tale : once upon an American dream / Tracey L. Mollet.

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A cultural history of the Disney fairy tale : once upon an American dream / Tracey L. Mollet.

9783030501495 (electronic book)
3030501493 (electronic book)
9783030501488 (hbk.)
3030501485

Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.

©2020

English

1 online resource (xv, 275 pages)

10.1007/978-3-030-50149-5 doi

PN1999.W27 M65 2020eb

791.436559

This book charts the complex history of the relationship between the Disney fairy tale and the American Dream, demonstrating the ways in which the Disney fairy tale has been reconstructed and renegotiated alongside, and in response to important changes within American society. In all of its fairy tales of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the Walt Disney studios works to sell its audiences the national myth of the United States at any one historical moment. With analyses of films and television programmes such as The Little Mermaid (1989), Frozen (2013), Beauty and the Beast (2017) and Once Upon a Time (2011-2018), Mollet argues that by giving its fairy tale protagonists characteristics associated with good Americans, and even by situating their fairy tales within America itself, Disney constructs a vision of America as a utopian space.

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